![]() And there's another new scanning feature that can automatically position your scanned images into the same frames as your rough drawings so you don't have to set the timing again after scanning. ![]() When you scan or import color images into the foreground levels, FlipBook can key out the white areas, making them transparent, so the rest of the scene behind the overlay will show through. New import features make it easy to bring in a series of images from any 3D or live-action sequence to combine with your 2D animation, and you can print these images with registration marks to use for reference while drawing. New tools make drawing easier and now you can cut or copy part of one image and paste into another with scaling and rotation to help in the animation. And now you get 20 levels of undo and redo so you can experiment to the full extent of your creativity. ![]() Once you've got the big areas painted, the new AutoFinish feature can paint the rest of the drawing for you by filling any unpainted areas with the color from the nearest painted area. And if FlipBook finds a small gap in the line while filling, it can close the gap and correct the fill. FlipBook 4 can display the lines from all of the levels that a character may be spread over and the fill will stop when it hits a line from any level. The new "Boomerang" feature lets you edit your images in Photoshop (or any other paint program) for unlimited power and versatility without leaving FlipBook. And the full screen playback and realtime WYSIWYG video output let you see exactly what your movie will look like on a PC or a TV. Mid-scene start and stop points let you concentrate both compositing and playback to any part of the scene. Scenes open up to 10 times faster, and the new preview modes composite at least 300% faster. Virtually every aspect of the program has been enhanced. has released FlipBook 4.0 offering greater speed, power, ease-of-use and more affordability. You can download the latest version of FlipBook from the company web site at California-based DigiCel Inc. Mac users will be able to access the latest features via a free update for version 5.ĭigiCel is a privately held corporation that markets software for professional, student and aspiring animators. ![]() In the course of adding the paperless animation features to the PC version, DigiCel completed a few more features that they were anxious to release, so they included them in the PC version as well. Even though they were using version 4 on the PC and version 5 on the Mac everything went smoothly throughout the movie." "About this time," he continues, "the animators working on the SIMPSONS MOVIE requested FlipBook, which many of them had used on CURIOUS GEORGE, LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION and RUGRATS GO WILD. "He liked it better than anything else he had used and made a few suggestions to make it even easier, which we have since implemented. DigiCel president Kent Braun explains that, for the Mac release, he invited Eric Goldberg to accompany DigiCel to Annecy to demonstrate the software at their booth. ![]() The new release brings FlipBook for Windows up to speed with the Mac version released last year at Annecy. FlipBook will not only retime my character rig in Maya, but it also imports my new markups into a Maya image plane for reference - no more need for grease pencils or dry erase markers." Regarding the MayaLink feature, veteran Disney animator Jason Ryan explains that it enables him to "shoot out just my keys with their original timing in Maya, re-time them in FlipBook with real-time feedback, draw markups for new paths of action and send it all back to Maya. Other features include a customizable tool bar, a new video-capture module designed to further simplify stop-motion and cut-out animation, a new lip-sync feature that includes standard mouth drawings to aid in achieving frame-perfect lip-sync, and a crash recovery feature. In addition, a new MayaLink feature enables interfacing between FlipBook and Maya to help animators work out difficult pose and timing issues. FlipBook 5 for Windows includes new paperless animation features to support drawing on both normal and display tablets or tablet PCs, as well as a new light-box feature to control image display. Software maker DigiCel has released the newest PC version of its popular 2D animation software. ![]()
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